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ROACHES TO QUICHE!?!?!?

by seasoned
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OK, OK, it IS an oversimplification! What alton brown, the guy that IRONICALLY created and stars in "good eats". SAID was....

"If you could take cockroaches, grind them up, and put them in a machine that could resequence them and create quiche, WHY WOULDN'T YOU?"!

YEECH!

Steve
  • Profile picture of the author Horny Devil
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    Why not.

    The last thing most people want to do is eat a cockroach, but they are considered a delicacy in a number of other cultures in both Asia and South America and the trend is catching on. There would seem to be little benefit from eating a cockroach, however, cockroaches are an excellent source of protein and iron and have very little fat. If you ate cockroach instead of steak, weight for weight, then you would be getting more protein with far less fat - though obviously for many the idea of eating a steak’s worth of cockroaches is far from appetising.

    As well as eating them, cockroaches can also be made into a tea, a tincture which many in New Orleans use as a remedy for a variety of ailments.

    The little buggers are hardy though and you have to kill them first. Some species of cockroaches can go without air for 45 minutes, can remain active for a month without food, can sustain themselves on the glue from a postage stamp, can survive being submerged in water for half an hour, and can withstand radiation up to 15 times the lethal dose for humans.

    And some folk don't even have to go out and shop for them. There's plenty in their kitchen.






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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      Insects are eaten in Asia, Africa, South America. and to a small degree in America.
      But even though I have eaten insects myself before (my favorite is roasted grasshoppers) I'd only eat the roach quiche if I didn't know what it was. Then if I liked it or not it would be based on taste and not ingredients.
      If I liked it I would eat it again knowing it was made with roaches.
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      • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
        Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

        Insects are eaten in Asia, Africa, South America. and to a small degree in America.
        But even though I have eaten insects myself before (my favorite is roasted grasshoppers) I'd only eat the roach quiche if I didn't know what it was. Then if I liked it or not it would be based on taste and not ingredients.
        If I liked it I would eat it again knowing it was made with roaches.
        Thom,

        In the 60s, weren't chocolate covered grasshoppers and ants considered a delicacy?

        I was just a wee little one, but I'm sure a friend of my parents brought some over for them to try. I can't remember if my parents liked them or not, though. It's probably because when they were offered, I ran to my room and hid, lol!

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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    I dunno. I prefer bacon.
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  • Profile picture of the author waterotter
    Are insects the food of the future?

    Locusts and grasshoppers are healthy, environmentally-friendly alternatives to beef. As the world population booms, edible insects may be the best solution for fighting hunger. But can Europeans stomach the thought?
    I'll have a Bug Mac and Flies, please:p
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    I forget how the subject came up, but NPR DID talk a lot about food. They ALSO said GMO food demanded a 60% DISCOUNT in Japan and that claimed absence of proof(of danger by one person) meant proof of absence(of danger for all eternity), and thus GMO was 100% safe! So they said that there was nothing to fear and that labeling things as GMO in the US may actually make it worth MORE in the US, especially since so many would be so labeled.

    Of course, they didn't spell it out that what they REALLY meant was that people would be FORCED to accept it because they wuld have NO choice! If you want corn, and all corn is GMO.....

    Anyway, Alton spoke BEFORE that and said simply that the machinery made all the difference. The show "good eats" is about how scientific tricks can make good food better, and may even make weird food taste good. Below is a link to one of his shows. If heysal never saw it, maybe she would like it:


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